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Tom Howard

In these eight darkly comic stories, Tom Howard explores the instincts for violence and tenderness that mark his character's lives. A brother and sister wander the pier after a deadly plague destroys most of humanity. A high school bully struggles to overcome his demons. A man in the grips of dementia is visited by his children's ghosts. The people in these blistering tales grapple with past mistakes, trying to navigate their way toward redemption and resurrection and failing often—but alw...

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Tom Howard

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Blue Light Books

This debut story collection from the Tobias Wolff Award–winning author "is streaked with fantasy that deconstructs society's lost and wasted lives" ( Publishers Weekly).In these eight darkly comic stories, acclaimed author Tom Howard explores the conflicting instincts for tenderness and violence that mark his character's lives. A brother and sister wander the pier after a deadly plague destroys most of humanity. A high school bully struggles to overcome hi...

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Tom Howard

Tom Howard’s award-winning debut short story collection, Fierce Pretty Things, won accolades for blending “raw emotion with surreal forays into the supernatural and metaphysical.” With his second collection, Invisibilia, Howard takes the reader on a mesmerizing ride through a haunting, haunted landscape of children, drifters, soldiers, lovers, and ghosts, and the unseen forces that shape their lives.Two sisters and their parents slowly disappear, each in their own way, after a univ...

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Tom Howard

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Real American Grit Series

You've tried bonuses, spiffs, and commissions. So why isn't your team performing its best?The problem may be your pay plan.Pay Plans That Actually Work reveals why most compensation plans accidentally reward the wrong behaviors, frustrate top performers, and quietly cost owners millions in lost productivity, unnecessary payroll, and employee turnover. Home-service leader Tom Howard introduces six principles rooted in behavioral science that transform compensation i...

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Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

R for Health Technology Assessment discusses the use of proper statistical software, specifically R, to perform the whole pipeline of analytic modelling in health technology assessment (HTA). It has been designed with the objective of establishing the use of R as the standard tool for HTA amongst academics, industry practitioners and regulators. It covers a lot of ground, starting with the necessary background in HTA, R and statistical inference, followed by various modell...

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Karel Smolders, Helen De Cruz, John Maskey, Bill Davidson, John J. Kennedy, Suann Amero, Tom Howard, Anne Silva, Ziaul Moid Khan, Andrea Staum

From the time humankind first walked the earth, they have strived to do one thing -- to live. And sometimes, the idea of living beyond what the gods and nature deem necessary becomes the focus of their efforts. This collection of stories from authors such as Suann Amero, Tom Howard, and Ziaul Moid Khan to name a few focuses on the themes of reincarnation, resurrection, and living beyond death.Please enjoy -- after all, who doesn't want to live forever.

This volume is an integrated overview and synthesis of available data relating to the Quaternary evolution of the River Trent. It provides detailed descriptions of the Pleistocene sedimentary records from the Trent, its tributaries and related drainage systems - a sedimentary record that spans a period of approximately half a million years - and the biostratigraphical and archaeological material preserved therein.Significant new data are presented from recently discovered sites of ...

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Blair Howard

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Tom Lennon

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The Randall & Carver Mysteries

Walter Prescott has six weeks to live. One question haunts him: What happened to Ruth Bellamy?Fifty-six years ago, Ruth vanished. No note. No goodbye. No trace.Walter never stopped searching.Now, dying of cancer, he hires private investigators Randall & Carver to find the truth—whatever it costs. But the truth costs more than either of them imagined.Ruth didn’t disappear. She was erased. Forced into hiding by men who would kill to protect a government secret so ...

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Kevin J. Anderson, Seanan McGuire, Andi Christopher, Keltie Zubko, James Romag, Liam Hogan, John M. Olsen, Edward J. Knight, Ed Burkley, Tom Howard, Alicia Cay, JL Curtis, Eric James Stone, Travis Heermann, Rebecca M. Senese, Gama Ray Martinez, Rebecca E. Treasure, Russell Davis, Brennen Hankins, Michael Scott Bricker, Michael Nethercott, Eugie Foster, Kelly Adams, Erekson Holt, Deborah Kevin, Melissa Dalton Martinez, Constanza Ontaneda, Dale Sprague, Amanda Montandon, Matt Wright

When the mask comes off, can you handle what's underneath?When your secret identity is revealed …When the monster is unleashed …When the superhero's child has no power …When Death himself is caught unawares …Pull back the mask to reveal 21 tales from seasoned and award-winning authors, of magical masks, gas masks, death masks, superheroes, secret identities, disguised robots, alien symbionts, a Napoleonic thief, a swindling demon—eve...

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Blair Howard

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Tom Lennon

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The Harry Starke Novels

An elite Iranian military unit. A missing tactical nuclear weapon. An aging Vietnam vet with a taste for violence.It began when an FBI informant was brutally gunned down outside a soccer stadium.A tactical nuclear weapon has gone missing somewhere in the Middle East and is thought to have been smuggled into the United States by a small group of Iranian terrorists intent on chaos and destruction. The target? Unknown, but the FBI’s local director is convinced that it’s the Se...

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A. J. Sautter

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Drawing Fantasy Creatures

Little grabs people’s imaginations more than fire-breathing dragons, magical elves, and other fantastic creatures. Now with this ebook, fantasy fans can learn to draw their favorite creatures and learn more about them at the same time. Simple, step-by-step instructions team up with lively creature descriptions to teach young artists how to draw dragons, orcs, dwarves, and many other fantastical creatures.

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Robert Kirkman, Joshua Williamson, Pye Parr

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Energon Universe Special 2026

The biggest year in Energon Universe history is here, with all new stories from the worlds of?TRANSFORMERS,?G.I. JOE, VOID RIVALS?and beyond in this new printing of the FCBD 2026 specialFCBD issue. Join the biggest names in comics for both a perfect jumping on point into the Energon Universe and a can't miss experience for long-time fans.